housefather
/hous-fah-ther/US // ˈhaʊsˌfɑ ðər //UK // (ˈhaʊsˌfɑːðə) //
家父,家长,家长会,家政服务
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
Examples
The law does not clearly mark off the right of the injured housefather from the right of the offended magistrate.
Go only to Father Balthazar, housefather, and see if he doth not call it a sending of a lamb among wolves.
“Nothing warm in the house,” said the housefather, a carpenter himself.
Blood relationship, family, and the rulership of the housefather are in this early period the base and centre of social order.
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